 Marshall
Cultural Atlas
This collection of student work is from
Frank Keim's classes. He has wanted to share these works for others
to use as an example of Culturally-based curriculum and documentation. These
documents have been OCR-scanned. These are available
for educational use only.
Marshall's Future
It was November 25, 2097. The population of an old
Yupik village is now 90,057. As I grew up I watched the place change.
My grandfather used to tell me that people would change and the land
would change too. About a hundred years ago the village population
was less than four hundred. Now the village is a small city. We all
live only off the stores because all the Native food we used to eat
we can't find anymore. Even what we find we can't eat because it's
poisonous. Most of the population in Marshall is now made up of
Koreans. Way less than half is Native. We only travel by boat and
truck or car anymore because there's no more snow. In fact I haven't
seen any snow for about twenty five years now. The climate sure has
changed in the last fifty years. Due to global warming the weather is
always warm and the Yukon never freezes anymore. A lot of the people
are dying of skin cancer from all the UV-B rays that they get because
the ozone layer is disappearing. The Yukon is so dry it's like a
slough now. What used to be called the Kuskokwim is now only a creek.
Today is a lot different than a long time ago. We are suffering just
like people everywhere in the world. In many places they have to use
oxygen masks on certain days because there's so little oxygen left.
One of the reasons is that most of the trees are gone because
corporations like Mitsubishi have wiped out most of the trees all
over the world. Also, the old TAPS pipeline broke a few years ago and
spilled over thirty million barrels of oil into Alaska's rivers,
including the Yukon River. After the oil spill, water resources all
over Alaska are now contaminated. One of my few sons last year died
from drinking poisonous water. People don't seem to have learned
because the population is still increasing. Last week the hospital
counted twenty-one pregnant women, and only four sick people. But
we've averaged about two murders per month.
There are 25 schools here in Marshall. The high
school I went to a 100 years ago has only grades 9-12. It is named
after of one of the oldest elders. The other six high schools are on
the other side of Wilson Creek where there are houses all the way up
the side of the mountain. The biggest building here is five stories
high. Long ago we only had a couple of buildings that were two
stories high.
I sure hope we don't have to live like that in a
100 years!
By Joel
Isaac
Christmastime Tales
Stories real and imaginary about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 1996 |
Christmastime Tales II
Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 1998 |
Christmastime Tales III
Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 2000 |
| Summer Time Tails 1992 |
Summertime Tails II 1993 |
Summertime Tails III |
| Summertime Tails IV Fall, 1995 |
Summertime Tails V Fall, 1996 |
Summertime Tails VI Fall, 1997 |
| Summertime Tails VII Fall, 1999 |
Signs of the Times November 1996 |
Creative Stories From Creative Imaginations |
| Mustang Mind Manglers - Stories of the Far Out,
the Frightening and the Fantastic 1993 |
Yupik Gourmet - A Book of
Recipes |
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| M&M Monthly |
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| Happy Moose Hunting! September Edition 1997 |
Happy Easter! March/April 1998 |
Merry Christmas December Edition 1997 |
| Happy Valentine’s
Day! February Edition
1998 |
Happy Easter! March/April Edition 2000 |
Happy Thanksgiving Nov. Edition, 1997 |
| Happy Halloween October 1997 Edition |
Edible and Useful Plants of Scammon
Bay |
Edible Plants of Hooper Bay 1981 |
| The Flowers of Scammon Bay Alaska |
Poems of Hooper Bay |
Scammon Bay (Upward Bound Students) |
| Family Trees and the Buzzy Lord |
It takes a Village - A guide for parents May 1997 |
People in Our Community |
| Buildings and Personalities of
Marshall |
Marshall Village PROFILE |
Qigeckalleq Pellullermeng ‘A
Glimpse of the Past’ |
| Raven’s
Stories Spring 1995 |
Bird Stories from Scammon Bay |
The Sea Around Us |
| Ellamyua - The Great Weather - Stories about the
Weather Spring 1996 |
Moose Fire - Stories and Poems about Moose November,
1998 |
Bears Bees and Bald Eagles Winter 1992-1993 |
| Fish Fire and Water - Stories about fish, global warming
and the future November, 1997 |
Wolf Fire - Stories and Poems about Wolves |
Bear Fire - Stories and Poems about Bears Spring,
1992 |
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